SOLDERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does soldering mean? 

• SOLDERING (noun)
  The noun SOLDERING has 1 sense:

1. fastening firmly together

  Familiarity information: SOLDERING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOLDERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fastening firmly together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bonding; soldering

Hypernyms ("soldering" is a kind of...):

attachment; fastening (the act of fastening things together)

Derivation:

solder (join or fuse with solder)

 Context examples 

He put the heart in the Woodman's breast and then replaced the square of tin, soldering it neatly together where it had been cut.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

First he took out a soldering iron and some plumbing solder, and then a small oil-lamp, which gave out, when lit in a corner of the tomb, gas which burned at fierce heat with a blue flame; then his operating knives, which he placed to hand; and last a round wooden stake, some two and a half or three inches thick and about three feet long.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

So they set to work in one of the big yellow rooms of the castle and worked for three days and four nights, hammering and twisting and bending and soldering and polishing and pounding at the legs and body and head of the Tin Woodman, until at last he was straightened out into his old form, and his joints worked as well as ever.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)